Tom Friedman

[RogerMexico]

Check out some of this artist's work:





Loops made from 3/4-inch masking tape, sticky-side out, form
a circle 72 inches in diameter that sits on the floor

[RogerMexico]

All the words in the English language written on a
large piece of paper which sits on the floor

[RogerMexico]

Approximately 1,500 pieces of chewed bubble gum molded into a sphere.
It is hung in a corner by a support and its own stickiness



A self-portrait of the artist carved out of an aspirin

[RogerMexico]

A handmade fly rests on the wall (plastic, hair, fuzz, Play-Doh, wire, paint)



A five-feet tall box of cereal assembled from cutting up and reassembling seven separate boxes of cereal

[RogerMexico]

Bar of soap with pubic hairs wrapped in perfect, concentric circles



Object made of toothpicks

[RogerMexico]

A piece of paper hand-wrinkled to look identical to another wrinkled piece of paper



A symmetric arrangement of pick-up sticks. One set is thrown onto the floor to create a random layout, then the other set is arranged to create an exact mirror-symmetric copy of the first.

[RogerMexico]

Sculpture of the artist at a miniature scale



An ordinary pencil was shaved by a pencil sharpener until
it was completely shaved. It is in one long continuous spiral.

[Louis XV]

that man is my hero

I wish I could actually take the annoyance of pubic hairs embedded in soap bars and turn it into a work of art

[Jason]

Impressive stuff.

[Cops]

How do you know about this dude Roger?

[Da1andonly]

nice





cops..tha artist's name is prolly Tom Friedman

[Cops]

Da1 you just made me look dumb, I realized that and changed my post.

[RogerMexico]

Cops... a friend tipped me off to him. If you want to see more of this stuff, there's a good book available on the artist (in any bookstore or on amazon.com) aptly titled Tom Friedman.


A few of my favorite pieces didn't have photos, so I couldn't include them. Here are some descriptions, though:

- A piece entitled Hot Balls: a pile of rubber bouncy balls increasing in size, with a three-foot-diameter ball in the center. The work is called hot balls because the artist stole each of the balls from toy stores around the Chicago metrapolitan area over a period of six months.

- A blank piece of paper that the artist stared at for 1000 hours.

- A perfect spiral, six-feet wide, in which the artist signed his name until the pen ran out of ink.

[Yoshiba]

stop being so faddish

[Heatha]

- wow those are cool pictures. I wish i had talent like that -